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Every team has games like this, we’re just not used to it lately, but what’s important is how they come back tomorrow. We’ve been living in a rarefied atmosphere. But this is one game. I don’t think they’re throwing in the towel.

We were due for this. It happens. Maybe we can at least salvage some dignity and score a few runs and stop the hemorrhaging.

Montero in a groove and then….

This ump sucks for everybody

O’s pouring it on

Going to have to score runs to win this game. Won’t be nip and tuck by the skin of your teeth tonight.

On that called strike that was inches out of the strike zone Santander just laughed at how bad it was but got his best swing in in the end anyway.

2-run homer Santander.

That was bad, bad bad miscommunication

Carpenter out at 2nd on the steal attempt. Is it just our team or isn’t everybody a qualified base stealer now given the new rules?

Yeah, I noticed his discomfort and it made me chuckle. I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed this.

Baltimore’s City Connect uniforms are boring compared to our’s, aside from the stitching on the O’s sleeves which is sort of meh.

I hate how they give betting odds.

They just showed a Chevrolet ad where the man in the car was wearing a Tigers cap.

Just saw former Tigers Nick and JD Martinez hanging out talking to each other on the field prior to the Phillies and Mets game.

By the way, for you with access to Apple TV, the pregame begins at 6:30 PM Eastern. As for what Apple TV provides otherwise, the two seasons of FOUNDATION are great, although the suits at Apple pretty much destroyed chances of the series going ahead. Since that’s gone if it weren’t for the fact, my son pays for it. I probably would’ve stopped subscribing by now. I watched Monarch: Legacy of Monsters which was Godzilla series and pretty good. Started watching Sunny and the series seemed to go nowhere halfway through. Everybody I know raves about Severance and Slow Horses but the older I’ve got the less likely I am to spend time being a mere spectator — I reserve that for the Tigers — so I’m slow to pick up a new series.

The above does not seem like lineup for the ages. But somehow they have sustained a positive momentum for more than just a series or two.

I don’t know how this is accomplished, but I hope Hinch as a stable anchor can keep the young players, especially, focused on the bubble of this mutual momentum they appear to inhabit. It only exists game-by-game, and must be renewed daily through a single-pointed focus on the goal of the day. They have to keep their heads firmly entrenched in each single game and avoid distractions about the future. When Hinch says they purposely avoid getting caught up in the future, this is exactly what he’s talking about. We have the luxury of pondering these imponderables, but they don’t. There’s times on the field, where you sense them coalescing into something greater than the sum of their singular identities, as if they were surfing on the same great wave. It’s really something to behold.

Duh. I was thinking it was a statistic, not an entity. I immediately knew what BR was, but didn’t relate it to something like that.

Also what is an FG outlook to make it so decisive? An Internet search of FG yielded nothing for me.

The most recent one posted yesterday ranked us 13th ”The Tigers have been carried by their pitching. If they hope to do what hardly anyone considered possible just a few weeks ago, they'll probably have to hit a bit more; their .685 second-half OPS is the eighth lowest in the majors.”

Getting an early start on things is a good idea.

I am more interested in the fact that on a rest day my team backed into a tie for the wildcard that is not really a tie, than the lesser fact of Ohtani hitting three home runs with six hits and 10 RBIs and stealing his 50th base. I have different priorities.